a. [ad. L. turgēscent-em: see prec. and -ENT.] Becoming swollen; swelling, growing bigger.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Turgescent, swelling or growing big.
1755. in Johnson.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 378. A turgescent, and especially a varicose state of the internal hemorrhoidal vessels.
1831. T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle, 6. Arms, three empty bladders, turgescent, to show how opinions are formed.
1857. Bullock, Cazeaux’ Midwif., 83. The nipple is more projecting, turgescent, and sensitive.
1891. F. Darwin, in Nature, 27 Aug., 408/1. In a growing shoot the turgescent pith stretches the cortex.
